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David S. Miller
e77c8e83dd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-03-20 15:24:29 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
0641e4fbf2 net: Potential null skb->dev dereference
When doing "ifenslave -d bond0 eth0", there is chance to get NULL
dereference in netif_receive_skb(), because dev->master suddenly becomes
NULL after we tested it.

We should use ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid this (or rcu_dereference())

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-18 21:16:45 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
1c01fe14a8 net: forbid underlaying devices to change its type
It's not desired for underlaying devices to change type. At the time,
there is for example possible to have bond with changed type from
Ethernet to Infiniband as a port of a bridge. This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-18 20:00:02 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7d720c3e4f percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net
Add __percpu sparse annotations to net.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.

The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit
interesting.  DEFINE/DECLARE_SNMP_STAT() macros mark the target field
as __percpu and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS() macro is updated accordingly.  All
snmp_mib_*() users which used to cast the argument to (void **) are
updated to cast it to (void __percpu **).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-16 23:05:38 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
8a83a00b07 net: maintain namespace isolation between vlan and real device
In the vlan and macvlan drivers, the start_xmit function forwards
data to the dev_queue_xmit function for another device, which may
potentially belong to a different namespace.

To make sure that classification stays within a single namespace,
this resets the potentially critical fields.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-03 20:20:32 -08:00
David S. Miller
05ba712d7e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-01-28 06:12:38 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
2dc85e91d0 vlan: fix vlan_skb_recv()
Bruno Prémont found commit 9793241fe9
(vlan: Precise RX stats accounting) added a regression for non
hw accelerated vlans.

[   26.390576] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[   26.396369] IP: [<df856b89>] vlan_skb_recv+0x89/0x280 [8021q]

vlan_dev_info() was used with original device, instead of
skb->dev. Also spotted by Américo Wang.

Reported-By: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Tested-By: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-24 19:52:24 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
2c8c1e7297 net: spread __net_init, __net_exit
__net_init/__net_exit are apparently not going away, so use them
to full extent.

In some cases __net_init was removed, because it was called from
__net_exit code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-17 19:16:02 -08:00
Andy Gospodarek
1f3c8804ac bonding: allow arp_ip_targets on separate vlans to use arp validation
This allows a bond device to specify an arp_ip_target as a host that is
not on the same vlan as the base bond device and still use arp
validation.  A configuration like this, now works:

BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=1000 arp_ip_target=10.0.100.1 arp_validate=3"

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
    link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::213:21ff:febe:33e9/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
9: bond0.100@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
    link/ether 00:13:21:be:33:e9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.100.2/24 brd 10.0.100.255 scope global bond0.100
    inet6 fe80::213:21ff:febe:33e9/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth1
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
ARP Polling Interval (ms): 1000
ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 10.0.100.1

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 1
Permanent HW addr: 00:40:05:30:ff:30

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:13:21:be:33:e9

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-03 21:17:16 -08:00
Octavian Purdila
bf9ae5386b llc: use dev_hard_header
Using dev_hard_header allows us to use LLC with VLANs and potentially
other Ethernet/TokernRing specific encapsulations. It also removes code
duplication between LLC and Ethernet/TokenRing core code.

Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-26 20:38:23 -08:00
Patrick Mullaney
fc4a748966 netdevice: provide common routine for macvlan and vlan operstate management
Provide common routine for the transition of operational state for a leaf
device during a root device transition.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03 15:59:22 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
91e2ff3528 net: Teach vlans to cleanup as a pernet subsystem
Take advantage of the fact that an explicit rtnl_kill_links is
unnecessary (and skipping it improves batching), as network namespace
exit calls dellink on all remaining virtual devices, and
rtnl_link_unregister calls dellink on all outstanding devices in that
network namespace.  To do this we need to leave the vlan proc
directories in place until after network device exit time, which is
done by using register_pernet_subsys instead of
register_pernet_device.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-02 22:10:24 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
946d1a9298 net: Simplify vlan pernet operations.
Take advantage of the new pernet automatic storage management,
and stop using compatibility network namespace functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-01 16:15:53 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
5e75659305 vlan: support "loose binding" to the underlying network device
Currently the UP/DOWN state of VLANs is synchronized to the state of the
underlying device, meaning all VLANs are set down once the underlying
device is set down. This causes all routes to the VLAN devices to vanish.

Add a flag to specify a "loose binding" mode, in which only the operstate
is transfered, but the VLAN device state is independant.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-26 16:00:36 -08:00
David S. Miller
3505d1a9fd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c
	drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
	drivers/staging/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/Makefile
	drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig
	drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
2009-11-18 22:19:03 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
f99189b186 netns: net_identifiers should be read_mostly
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 05:03:25 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
9793241fe9 vlan: Precise RX stats accounting
With multi queue devices, its possible that several cpus call
vlan RX routines simultaneously for the same vlan device.

We update RX stats counter without any locking, so we can
get slightly wrong counters.

One possible fix is to use percpu counters, to get precise
accounting and also get guarantee of no cache line ping pongs
between cpus.

Note: this adds 16 bytes (32 bytes on 64bit arches) of percpu
data per vlan device.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17 23:51:55 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
6b863d1d32 vlan: Fix register_vlan_dev() error path
In case register_netdevice() returns an error, and a new vlan_group
was allocated and inserted in vlan_group_hash[] we call
vlan_group_free() without deleting group from hash table. Future
lookups can give infinite loops or crashes.

We must delete the vlan_group using RCU safe procedure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-17 06:45:04 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
b93ab837a2 vlan: Use __vlan_hwaccel_put_tag() in rx
Commit 05423b2413 (vlan: allow null VLAN ID to be used)
forgot to update __vlan_hwaccel_rx() & vlan_gro_common()

We need to set VLAN_TAG_PRESENT flag in skb->vlan_tci

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-15 22:21:33 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
cbbef5e183 vlan/macvlan: propagate transmission state to upper layers
Both vlan and macvlan devices usually don't use a qdisc and immediately
queue packets to the underlying device. Propagate transmission state of
the underlying device to the upper layers so they can react on congestion
and/or inform the sending process.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13 14:07:33 -08:00
stephen hemminger
9e067597ee vlan: eliminate use of dev_base_lock
Do not need to use read_lock(&dev_base_lock), use RCU instead.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-10 22:26:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
81adee47df net: Support specifying the network namespace upon device creation.
There is no good reason to not support userspace specifying the
network namespace during device creation, and it makes it easier
to create a network device and pass it to a child network namespace
with a well known name.

We have to be careful to ensure that the target network namespace
for the new device exists through the life of the call.  To keep
that logic clear I have factored out the network namespace grabbing
logic into rtnl_link_get_net.

In addtion we need to continue to pass the source network namespace
to the rtnl_link_ops.newlink method so that we can find the base
device source network namespace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
2009-11-08 00:53:51 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
29906f6a42 vlan: cleanup multiple unregistrations
The temporary copy of the VLAN group is not neccessary since the lower device
is already in the process of being unregistered, if it was neccessary the
memset of the global group would introduce a race condition.

With this removed, the changes to the original code are only a few lines, so
remove the new function and move the code back into vlan_device_event().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 23:43:00 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
c7c4b3b6e9 gro: Change all receive functions to return GRO result codes
This will allow drivers to adjust their receive path dynamically
based on whether GRO is being applied successfully.

Currently all in-tree callers ignore the return values of these
functions and do not need to be changed.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 21:36:53 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
5b252f0c2f gro: Name the GRO result enumeration type
This clarifies which return and parameter types are GRO result codes
and not RX result codes.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 21:33:55 -07:00
Yi Zou
d653479941 vlan: Add support to netdev_ops.ndo_fcoe_get_wwn for VLAN device
Implements the netdev_ops.ndo_fcoe_get_wwn for VLAN device.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-29 01:04:04 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
63c8099d90 vlan: Optimize multiple unregistration
Use unregister_netdevice_many() to speedup master device unregister.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-28 02:22:08 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
23289a37e2 net: add a list_head parameter to dellink() method
Adding a list_head parameter to rtnl_link_ops->dellink() methods
allow us to queue devices on a list, in order to dismantle
them all at once.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-28 02:22:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
05423b2413 vlan: allow null VLAN ID to be used
We currently use a 16 bit field (vlan_tci) to store VLAN ID/PRIO on a skb.

Null value is used as a special value, meaning vlan tagging not enabled.
This forbids use of null vlan ID.

As pointed by David, some drivers use the 3 high order bits (PRIO)

As VLAN ID is 12 bits, we can use the remaining bit (CFI) as a flag, and
allow null VLAN ID.

In case future code really wants to use VLAN_CFI_MASK, we'll have to use
a bit outside of vlan_tci.

#define VLAN_PRIO_MASK         0xe000 /* Priority Code Point */
#define VLAN_PRIO_SHIFT        13
#define VLAN_CFI_MASK          0x1000 /* Canonical Format Indicator */
#define VLAN_TAG_PRESENT       VLAN_CFI_MASK
#define VLAN_VID_MASK          0x0fff /* VLAN Identifier */

Reported-by: Gertjan Hofman <gertjan_hofman@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-27 01:02:33 -07:00
John Fastabend
fc482cc54e net: fix vlan_get_size to include vlan_flags size
Fix vlan_get_size to include vlan->flags.  Currently, the
size of the vlan flags is not included in the nlmsg size.

Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-26 20:16:07 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
1a123a3168 vlan: adds drops accounting
Its hard to tell if vlans are dropping frames, since
every frame given to vlan_???_start_xmit() functions
is accounted as fully transmitted by lower device.

We can test dev_queue_xmit() return values to
properly account for dropped frames.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 20:02:17 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
2f8bc32b7a vlan: enable multiqueue xmits
vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() & vlan_dev_hwaccel_hard_start_xmit()
select txqueue number 0, instead of using index provided by
skb_get_queue_mapping().

This is not correct after commit 2e59af3dcb
[vlan: multiqueue vlan device] because
txq->tx_packets  & txq->tx_bytes changes are performed on
a single location, and not the right locking.

Fix is to take the appropriate struct netdev_queue pointer

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-03 02:19:58 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
2e59af3dcb vlan: multiqueue vlan device
vlan devices are currently not multi-queue capable.

We can do that with a new rtnl_link_ops method,
get_tx_queues(), called from rtnl_create_link()

This new method gets num_tx_queues/real_num_tx_queues
from real device.

register_vlan_device() is also handled.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-02 18:03:00 -07:00
Yi Zou
0af46d997f vlan: Add support for net_devices_ops.ndo_fcoe_enable/_disable to VLAN
This adds implementation of the net_devices_ops.ndo_fcoe_enable/_disable to
the VLAN driver. It checks if the real_dev has support for ndo_fcoe_enable/
ndo_fcoe_disable and if so, passes on to call the associated real_dev.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:24:23 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
6fef4c0c8e netdev: convert pseudo-devices to netdev_tx_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:07 -07:00
Vasu Dev
b85daa5324 vlan: adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops and updates fcoe_ddp_xid field
Adds fcoe offload related net_device_ops functions vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_setup
and vlan_dev_fcoe_ddp_done, their implementation simply calls real eth device
net_device_ops for FCoE DDP setup and done operations.

Updates VLAN netdev field value for fcoe_ddp_xid from real eth device netdev.

Above changes are required for fcoe DDP offload working on a VLAN interface.

Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-14 16:12:06 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
36cbd3dcc1 net: mark read-only arrays as const
String literals are constant, and usually, we can also tag the array
of pointers const too, moving it to the .rodata section.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-05 10:42:58 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b4076d1715 vlan: allow creating vlan when real device is not up
There is no reason for the arbitrary restriction that device must be
up to create a vlan. This patch was added to Vyatta kernel to resolve startup
ordering issues where vlan's are created but real device was disabled.

Note: the vlan already correctly inherits the operstate from real device; so
if vlan is created and real device is marked down, the vlan is marked
down.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-30 13:16:45 -07:00
Herbert Xu
2e477c9bd2 vlan: Propagate physical MTU changes
When the physical MTU changes we want to ensure that all existing
VLAN device MTUs do not exceed the new underlying MTU.  This patch
adds that propagation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-20 07:35:37 -07:00
Jesper Dangaard Brouer
6e327c11a9 8021q: Vlan driver should use rcu_barrier() on unload instead of syncronize_net()
The VLAN 8021q driver needs to call rcu_barrier() when unloading the module,
instead of syncronize_net().  This is needed to make sure that outstanding
call_rcu() callbacks have completed, before the callback function code is
removed on module unload.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-10 01:11:22 -07:00
Jiri Pirko
ccffad25b5 net: convert unicast addr list
This patch converts unicast address list to standard list_head using
previously introduced struct netdev_hw_addr. It also relaxes the
locking. Original spinlock (still used for multicast addresses) is not
needed and is no longer used for a protection of this list. All
reading and writing takes place under rtnl (with no changes).

I also removed a possibility to specify the length of the address
while adding or deleting unicast address. It's always dev->addr_len.

The convertion touched especially e1000 and ixgbe codes when the
change is not so trivial.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

 drivers/net/bnx2.c               |   13 +--
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c   |   24 +++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c |   14 ++--
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.h |    4 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c   |    6 +-
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h   |    4 +-
 drivers/net/macvlan.c            |   11 +-
 drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c        |   11 +-
 drivers/net/niu.c                |    7 +-
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c         |    7 +-
 drivers/s390/net/qeth_l2_main.c  |    6 +-
 drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c         |   16 ++--
 include/linux/netdevice.h        |   18 ++--
 net/8021q/vlan.c                 |    4 +-
 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c             |   10 +-
 net/core/dev.c                   |  195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 net/dsa/slave.c                  |   10 +-
 net/packet/af_packet.c           |    4 +-
 18 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29 22:12:32 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov
e3804cbebb net: remove COMPAT_NET_DEV_OPS
All drivers are already converted to new net_device_ops API
and nobody uses old API anymore.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-25 01:53:53 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
93f154b594 net: release dst entry in dev_hard_start_xmit()
One point of contention in high network loads is the dst_release() performed
when a transmited skb is freed. This is because NIC tx completion calls
dev_kree_skb() long after original call to dev_queue_xmit(skb).

CPU cache is cold and the atomic op in dst_release() stalls. On SMP, this is
quite visible if one CPU is 100% handling softirqs for a network device,
since dst_clone() is done by other cpus, involving cache line ping pongs.

It seems right place to release dst is in dev_hard_start_xmit(), for most
devices but ones that are virtual, and some exceptions.

David Miller suggested to define a new device flag, set in alloc_netdev_mq()
(so that most devices set it at init time), and carefuly unset in devices
which dont want a NULL skb->dst in their ndo_start_xmit().

List of devices that must clear this flag is :

- loopback device, because it calls netif_rx() and quoting Patrick :
    "ip_route_input() doesn't accept loopback addresses, so loopback packets
     already need to have a dst_entry attached."
- appletalk/ipddp.c : needs skb->dst in its xmit function

- And all devices that call again dev_queue_xmit() from their xmit function
(as some classifiers need skb->dst) : bonding, vlan, macvlan, eql, ifb, hdlc_fr

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 22:19:19 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
450c4ea15e vlan: use struct netdev_queue counters instead of dev->stats
We can update netdev_queue tx_bytes/tx_packets/tx_dropped counters instead
of dev->stats ones, to reduce number of cache lines dirtied in xmit path.

This fixes a performance problem on SMP when many different cpus take
vlan tx path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-18 15:15:06 -07:00
David S. Miller
aba7453037 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	Documentation/isdn/00-INDEX
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
	drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.c
	net/mac80211/main.c
2009-04-29 20:30:35 -07:00
Jay Vosburgh
adc667e84f vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down
Currently, the VLAN event handler does not adjust the VLAN
device's carrier state when the real device or the VLAN device is set
administratively up or down.

	The following patch adds a transfer of operating state from the
real device to the VLAN device when the real device is administratively
set up or down, and sets the carrier state up or down during init, open
and close of the VLAN device.

	This permits observers above the VLAN device that care about the
carrier state (bonding's link monitor, for example) to receive updates
for administrative changes by more closely mimicing the behavior of real
devices.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-04-25 18:03:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
b1b67dd45a net: factor out ethtool invocation of vlan/macvlan drivers
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-21 02:00:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
e5e9743bb7 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
	net/core/dev.c
2009-04-21 01:32:26 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
7816a0a862 vlan/macvlan: fix NULL pointer dereferences in ethtool handlers
Check whether the underlying device provides a set of ethtool ops before
checking for individual handlers to avoid NULL pointer dereferences.

Reported-by: Art van Breemen <ard@telegraafnet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-04-17 15:59:23 -07:00
David S. Miller
a54bfa40fd Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-04-16 17:35:26 -07:00